A biography for Darren Wallerhasn’t been written yet.
“It's tough, honestly, because I'm a human being at the end of the day and I'm still trying to shed my old thinking patterns.”
“So me being clean, I feel like it's breaking generational curses in my family. I think it's changing what's cool with young people. It means a lot to me now that a lot of people are looking to me for inspiration. It kind of gives me extra energy as well.”
“I never thought I'd be playing pro. I didn't really think that I was going to be playing in college or professionally, but I just kept getting better, bigger, and stronger, and things just happened.”
“Whether I have 20 yards or 200 yards, I still come to work the next week with the same mindset and stay on top of my habits and let the results take care of themselves.”
“There's really no path to where you want to go without adversity.”
“I try to stay present in the moment, continue to improve and try to learn something and not think I know everything just because I put some up some decent numbers now and then.”
“I'm not afraid to be honest.”
“You hear how high class of an organization the Giants is, and then you get here and you get to experience that and how they treat people.”
“Going into relationships, I had to be co-dependent and tap dance to please the partner. Or I had to self-sabotage the relationship before the other person did because of things that happened to me when I was younger.”
“We have abilities as athletes, but at the end of the day, we're humans.”
“Josh McDaniels knows ball. That hasn't been his problem. He taught me a lot, like on return routes, having the toe perpendicular to the line of scrimmage.”
“Icy Hot has stepped in and been reliable for the aches and pains of the day-to-day process of being an NFL player.”
“Being traded itself was not a surprise. Going to the Giants was a surprise.”
“I guess it's just for my size and my weight and I guess the way that I run and the multitude of routes that I try to be comfortable running. A lot of guys don't necessarily do that.”
“I feel like that giving-back component really keeps me sharp, because that's the greatest feeling that I can feel - to help somebody else or to be impactful in someone else's community or sphere of influence.”
“In the league, it's tough to win week-in, week-out. It's tough to win year-to-year.”
“People pretty much know that my story has been one of a lot of adversity and kind of responded to it.”
“I have confidence now in myself. It's not like I'm going out there, trying to please every single person in the stadium or everybody that's typing something online.”
“There's so much that goes into the process of going from April through February of an NFL season. The commitment that it requires.”
“Music was a way for me to almost speak things into existence before they even happened and to build confidence.”